Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-08-05
An Example of Lincoln's EIo-
quenCe.

An Example of Lincoln's Flo,
quence.
The Century Life of Lincol
reaches the famous Lincoln Dougla
debates in the July number. w
quote the following eloquent passag
from LincoIn's Lewistown speech {
August l7th, 1858. This speec
was made during the same car
vass for the Senate, but it was nc
one of the debate speeches 9TH
Declaration of Independence wa
formed by the representatives Q
American liberty from Thirteen
States of the Confederacy, twelve Q
which were slave-h hol ling communi
ties. We need not discuss the wa,
or the reason of their becoming slav,
holding communities. 1t is suficien
for our purpose that all of then
greatly deplored the evil and tha
they placed provision in the Consti
tuition which they supposed woule
gradually remove the disease by cut
ting off its source. This was tht
abolition of the slave trade. So gen
eral was the conviction, the publ,
determination, to abolish the African
slave trade, that the provision which
| have referred to as being placed In
the Constitution declared that Il
should not be abolished prior to the
year 1903. A constitutional provis
ion was necessary to prevent the
people, through Congress, from put
ting stop to the traffic Immediately
at the close of the war. Now if sla.
very had been o good thing, would
the Fathers of the Republic have ia.
ken step calculated to diminish its
its benefcient influences among them.
selves, and snatch the boon wholly
from their posterity? These com
munities by their representatives in
old Independence Hall, said to the
whole world of men: eve hold
these truths to be self evident that
all men are created equal; that they
are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
Of happiness; This was their ma
jestic Interpretation of the economy
of the Universe This was their
lofty. and wise, and noble under
standing of the justice of the Creator
to his creatures. Yes, gentlemen, to
all his creatures, to the great family
Of man. In their enlightened belief,
nothing stamped with the divine i'm.
age and likeness was sent into the
world to be trodden on and degraded,
and imbruted by its fellows. They
grasped not only the whole race of
men then living, but they reached
forward and seized on the farthest
posterity. They erected a beacon to
guide their children, and their chill
dren's children, and the countless
myriads who should inhabit the
earth 10 other ages. Wise statesmen
as they were they knew the tenden-
cy to breed tyrants, and SO they es-
tablished these great selfevident
truths, that when in the distant fu-
ture some man, some faction, some in
terest should set up the doctrine that
none but rich men, or none but An
glo Saxon white men, were entitled
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness, their posteritv might look
up again to the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and take courage to renew
the battle which their fathers began,
so that truth and justice and mercy
and all the humane and Christian
virtues might not be extinguished
from the land; so that no man would
hereafter dare to limit and circum-
scribe the great principles on which
the temple of liberty was being
built.
''Now, my countrymen, If you have
been taught doctrines conflicting with
the great landmarks of the Declara-
tion Of Independence; if you have lis
tened to suggestions which would
take away from its grandeur and mu-
tilate the fair symmetry of its proper
tions; if you have been inclined to be-
lieved that all men are not created
equal in those inalienabIe rights
enumerated by our chart for liberty,
let me entreat you to come back.
Return to the fountain whose waters
spring close by the blood of the Rev
olution. Think nothing of me-take
no thought for the political fate of
any man, whatsoever-but come back
to the truths that are in the Declare.
tion of Independence. You may do
anything with me you choose, if you
will but heed these sacred principles.
You may not only defeat me for the
Senate, but you may take me and
put me to death. While pretending
no indifference to earthly honors,I l do
claim to be actuated In this contest
by something higher than an anxiety
for Office ] charge you to drop every
paltry and Insignificant thought for
any mans success. 1t is nothing; |
am nothing; Judge Douglas is moth
ing But do not destroy that immor-
tai emblem of Humanity-the Decla-
ration of American Independence"
Why Do Bees and Wasps Sting?
Their weapons often serve to pro-
tect them from their enemies, but
with bees, especially the honey and
hive bees, at the approach of winter,
the drones or males are of no longer
use, and are killed off by the stings of
workers, to save the stores OF honey
they would otherwise consume.
With many of the wasps their stings
are food preservers. The large
wasps which make--their holes in the
ground, and some bees. like the Car
penter bees, which cut circular holes
in boards. or other wood, deposit an
egg in one of these holes, place food
for the the grub that will hatch from
this egg to feed upon, and when this
grub has made its growth it goes into
the chrysalis state, and in time comes
out perfect bee, or wasp, as it may
be. But, you ask, "What has this to